Celt: A Journal of Culture, English Language Teaching & Literature
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A BOOK REVIEW: A GOOD START, THOUGH INCOMPLETE, FOR CREATIVE WRITERS
Get PDFCarol Whiteley tries to guide the readers through the entire
process of creative writing, from writing preparation and getting
the ideas to drafting and editing what has been written. Whiteley
also expects readers to learn all about the different formats of creative writing and find hundreds of writing tips, resources,
examples, inspirational excerpts, advice and encouragement
CULTURAL UNTRANSLATABILITY: A STUDY ON THE RAINBOW TROOPS
Get PDFThe notion of translatability is possibly done with the extent to which meaning can still be adequately conveyed across languages. For this to be feasible, meaning has to be understood not only in terms of what the source text contains, but also in terms of target audience and purpose of translation. In linguistic untranslatability, the functionally relevant features include some which are in fact formal features of the language of the source language text. If the target language has no formally corresponding feature, the text, or the item, is (relatively) untranslatable. What appears to be a quite different problem arises, however, when a situational feature, functionally relevant for the source text, is completely absent in the culture of target language. As culture has something to do with the concept, source language texts and items are more or less translatable rather than absolutely translatableoruntranslatable. An adaptation, then, is a procedure whereby the translator replaces a term with cultural connotations, where those connotations are restricted to readers of the original language text, with a term with corresponding cultural connotations that would be familiar to readers of the translated text. Translating such culturally untranslatable items entails profound knowledge on both source and target cultures. Most cases in this particular work are solved by keepingcultural terms in the source language text, with or without explanation. Ecological, social, and religious culture terms undergo the process most frequently
STUDENTS PERSPECTIVES ON THE ROLE OF OPEN ACCESS CENTRE AND LANGUAGE LABORATORY AS SUPPORTING UNITS IN DEVELOPING ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS
Get PDFThis study aims at revealing the perception of the 2010, 2011 and 2012 academic year studentsof the Faculty of Letters on two supporting units at the faculty, namely Open Access Centre (OAC) and Language Laboratory (LL) in enhancing their English Language Skills. The results show that the average students consider both OAC and LL useful in developing their English Language competence. On the whole, they are satisfied with the existence of these two media except for a few things which need improving, such as facilities and instruments
THE STRATEGY OF TRANSLATING PUN IN ENGLISHINDONESIAN SUBTITLE OF AUSTIN POWERS: GOLDMEMBER
Get PDFThis paper concerns about the translation of pun in
comedy movie's subtitle. The data is taken from a comedy
movie Austin Powers: Goldmember. There are three
problems that are being discussed in this paper. The first
problem is the effect of different types of pun to
translatability. Second, the strategies in translating different
types of pun are discussed The last is the assessment of
translation using register analysis in evaluating the extent of
loss and gain occurred in the translation process.
Key words: pun, translatability, translation strategy, register
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INTERCONNECTIVY BETWEEN THE CURRICULUM AND THE STUDENTS' EXPERIENCES
Get PDFOne of the responsibilities of higher educational institutions is to enhance students' character building and soft skills. The disjuncture between institutions' expectation in educating their students and students' perceptions on the benefit of their teaching and learning processes necessitates a paradigm shift in the college curriculum. Given that universities prepare students to be an individual and a member of a society, college curriculum, therefore, should enhance students' experience both academically and nonacademically. This paper attempts to propose a modest and brief preliminary proposal for curricular change for English Departments in Indonesia. The proposal includes the proposal for five elements of curricular revision - purpose, learner, content, instructional processes, and evaluation and assessment
USING POPULAR CULTURES MEDIA OF INDONESIAN - ENGLISH PICTUREBOOKS AS A WAY OF REACHING MORE VEGETABLE CONSUMING CHILDREN
Get PDFA questionnaire and interview recently given to 5-8 year old children and their parents show that consumption of vegetables is low. One of the factors for the low consumption is due to the lack of creativity in making various menu and creative media to obtain children?s interest in wanting to consume vegetables. In Indonesia, if young children can be taught to actively use the English language, it will be a great advantage for their future?s education. Based on these backgrounds, through the various media available in today?s popular culture, picturebooks that can increase children?s ability to read English language texts in addition to consume vegetables is created. A picturebook project is regarded highly relevant for teachers who specialize in English language, visual communicative design and food technology. This article shares how with a bilingual picturebook, a reader will know how to pronounce the English language well because there is a phonetic transcription guide provided at the back of the book. Also at the back of the book is a menu for the vegetable that becomes the main character of the book. With this strategy, the book is projected to be popular to readers who want to also create attractive vegetable menus for children. The picturebook that is packed with simple yet interesting visual language is also a way to show how creative one can be in designing lovable vegetable characters. This article discusses the reasonings of creating the picture book
THE POPULARITY OF KOREAN MUSIC (K-POP) AMONG PERANAKAN CmNESE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS OF SOEGIJAPRANATA CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
Get PDFKorean Wave is one of the popular cultures that has developed in Indonesia. It comes with some special products that attract Indonesian youth. Doing a research on this, it is found that Korean music or K-Pop has noticeable popularity among 96.87% of selected peranakan Chinese undergraduate students in Soegijapranata Catholic University. This article to discusses and analyzes the phenomenon and the development of K-Pop of the factors of why the peranakan Chinese undergraduate students in Soegijapranata Catholic University are found of the Korean Wave product
WOMEN IN Y.B. MANGUNWIJAYA'S BURUNGBURUNG RANTAU: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
Get PDFAccording Kundera, a novel is not convention but is a writer's investigation of experience in the pitfalls of life. A novel can be used to discuss the issues of women and gender. One novel that explores the issue of women is Burung-burung Rantau by YB Mangunwijaya. There are three social processes in the formation of women's realities, namely: construction, deconstruction and reconstruction. Burungburung Rantau successfully portrays the practice of construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of the reality of women. Yuniati reflects the female construction of a mature woman, while Anggraini and Marineti undergo the process of deconstruction and reconstruction. Anggraini is hesitant in making decisions, while Marineti tends to be confident in her choices. The practice of construction, deconstruction and reconstruction of speech acts can be seen in the dialogues of the characters in the novel. They are also evident in the choice of words, figure of speech, and sentence structures used in the frame of discourse, power, inequality, and gender perspectives
HEAVENLY TEARS EARTHLY LOSS: DIFFERENT WAYS OF COPING WITH LIFE LOSS IN TEARS IN HEAVEN, CIRCUS, AND SINCE I LOST YOU
Get PDFThis is a qualitative study of three pop songs rooted from the same tragic event of Eric Clapton?s son Conor who fell from the 53rd floor of his spouse?s New York apartment in March 1991. Two songs are from Clapton himself i.e. Tears in Heaven and Circus and one song from his friend Phil Collins entitled Since I Lost You. The goal of this study is to elaborate the attitude of the author through the study of formal aspects of the song such as rhyme, rhythm, tone and picth and also the metaphorical expressions in their wording. This is a library research of the three songs using a comparative technique of elaboration. The study concludes that Phil Collins as a friend who is not directly involved in the tragedy shows his sympathy through a negative and hopeless way of seeing the tragedy. He focuses more on the tragedy directly rather than the impact, psychologial process and lessons learned afterward. Eric Clapton, on the other hand, as the one who directly suffers the impact of the tragedy sees the tragic event from a more positive angle. He tries to somehow show his grief but does not want to be drifted away in this sorrow. He focuses more on the process after the tragedyby remembering the sweet moment before the tragedy (in Circus) and imagine the same sweet thing after the tragedy (in Tears in Heaven) by setting an emotional spin around the good memory and nice after life state of the child with sweet hopes and strengthening consolatio
THE CHARACTERISTICS OF: A SINGAPOREAN SCIENCE TEXTBOOK WRITTEN IN ENGLISH FOR PRIMARY-THREE AND FOUR
Get PDFTextbooks play an important role in teaching learning process. Teachers and students can be well-equipped with the textbooks as the sources of knowledge, guidance and activities. As Indonesia has been aware of the use of imported books to upgrade their curriculum to be international standardized, the primary students are one of the subjects to use these books, especially those who study at International, International Standardized and Immersion program in National Schools. The generic structure and the physical characteristics of the textbooks build special attractiveness and images to the readers, in this case young learners in Indonesia in the science class. This paper discusses the presentation of the Singaporean science textbooks written in English and the appropriateness of the books for for
Indonesian students